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To celebrate this event, we have introduced a 10% off all items on our website for the next 60 days. All you need to do is pick out the products you want to purchase and use the coupon code “jubilee” (without the quotation marks) during checkout to claim your 10% discount.

Why not browse our website and take advantage of this offer by purchasing the right hydroponic system that suits you. If you require any help with placing your order, finding the correct nutrients you or simply to ask questions about one of our suppliers get in contact via our facebook, twitter or email info@1st-hydroponics.co.uk.

One of the smallest starter kits Nutriculture provide, the GT205 is perfect for beginners of hydroponics and growing plants indoors. If you were to compare a NFT hydroponic system with conventional soil-based methods, the NFT has little to no growing medium (i.e. soil), which leaves the roots completely uninhibited, whereas soil will absorb water and nutrients that is needed at the root. The roots in the NFT system are effectively “bare” so they they gain maximum exposure to oxygen and to the nutrients meaning ensuring better growth, giving up to a x4 higher yield. And because there is little to no growing medium used, there is little chance of diseases infecting your plant and less waste material to dispose of.

The way the Nutriculture GT205 gro-tank system works is remarkably simple. There is a tank at the bottom, which contains the nutrient solution and a duct/channel system, which sits atop. The duct system acts as a channel above the tank to direct the nutrient solution over the roots. There is a pump provided which means that the solution is fed to the roots and any unused solution is fed immediately back into the tank, ready to be fed back in again. This method not only ensures that there is little wastage, but the plants are never under-fed or over-watered. The pump works constantly, so there is no worrying a bout timers or feeding schedules.

Each of the Nutriculture Gro-Tank NFT systems contain:

• Tank
• Tray
• Correx top Plate
• Delivery System
• Pump
• Spreader Mat
• pH down
• Test Kit
• Emptying Tube

And most importantly full instructions on how to assemble and operate your system.

For more information about our hydroponic systems, grow lights, grow tents or any other related equipment, get in contact via our facebook, twitter or email info@1st-hydroponics.co.uk.

We sent them a X-stream Aeroponic 12 site propagator and a GT205 go-trank, both from Nutriculture. The pair make a great starting set up for any budding hydroponic grower as they come with everything needed. To buy the X-stream or GT205 click on the links above, or head over to their own category page, which can be found here.

Missing from the line up, but still integral to growing hydroponically are grow lights or grow tents, which they didn’t have time to cover in the show. For updates from 1^st Hydroponics, new products and advice on growing hydroponically like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.

Many people have heard different things about hydroponics, there are many misconceptions about what it’s for and how to do it. Literally, hydroponics means working water, taking from “hydro” meaning water and “ponics” meaning labor. The growing of plants using hydroponics techniques is hardly a recently development. The roots of Hydroponics dates back several hundred years B.C. from civilizations like the Aztecs the Chinese and in the hanging gardens of Babylon. But since then, the technologies used in hydroponics have come on leaps and bounds making it a very different growing method today.

Quite simply, hydroponics is the method of growing plants in non-arable areas, such space ships (yes, NASA does use Hydroponics), Pacific based soldiers in World War two, or more mundanely, if the soil is too inhospitable for effective growth. As Hydroponics developed it became more accessible to the casual grower or farmer and quickly people grew more aware of the inherent advantage of growing hydroponically over traditional methods.

The Advantages of Hydroponics are:

• Growing with far higher yields than soil-based growing ensuring that you get more produce out of each crop.
• Fast growing crops, because the grow environment is fully controlled by you, the optimum levels of nutrients, oxygen and water can be directed to the root in a way that soil-based growing can’t.
• The ability of growing where you otherwise wouldn’t be able to, indoors and outdoors.
• Eliminating the need for use of toxic pesticides on your crop as the majority of pests live in soil. Although this doesn’t mean there aren’t precautions that have to be taken.

In further guides we’ll look at the various grow systems like the Ebb and Flood Flo-Gro Basic and the Drip Irrigation Atam Wilma Complete Kit. Artificial lighting and grow lights, controlling nutrients, the different types of growing medium, methods of climate control, using grow tents and more.

It can look daunting now, but as you ascertain the grow method which best suits your needs, the rest will fall into place.  If you are feeling brave you can build your own hydroponics systems or purchase them from a hydroponics store like ours, 1^st Hydroponics.